1. What are the verses and poetic meaning of "Cicada"
"Cicada" was written by Yu Shinan, a litterateur in the Tang Dynasty. The original text of the poem is as follows: Hanging down the scorpion to drink the clear dew, the sound of the flowing water flows out Sparse Tong. The reason for speaking loudly and staying far away is not to borrow the autumn wind. The vernacular meaning is that the cicada lowers its tentacles like tassels to suck the clear and sweet dew, and the sound comes from the tall and sparse sycamore branches. The sound of cicadas spreads far and wide because they live in tall trees rather than relying on the autumn wind.
This is a poem about things written by Yu Shinan, a famous official in the early Tang Dynasty. By describing the shape, habits and sounds of cicadas, it hints at the poet's noble and noble conduct and aspirations. people. The cicada sucks the clear dew with its thin mouth. Due to the semantic pun, it implies that the high-ranking officials should abandon corruption and pursue integrity.
The cicada lives on the tall and tall sycamore trees. It is naturally different from the insects that wallow in the mud of rotting grass, so its voice can be clear and loud. The cicada's ability to "keep its voice high and far away" is not due to external forces such as the autumn wind. The implicit meaning of these poems is that as an official or a human being, you should stand on high ground and be virtuous, so that you can speak loudly and be famous far and wide.
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The author of this poem is Yu Shinan, Wenyizi of Yongxing County, courtesy name Boshi, Han nationality, from Yuyao (Minghechang, Guanhaiwei Town, Cixi City). A famous calligrapher, writer and politician in the early Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, he served as a daily official and a housekeeper. In the Tang Dynasty, he served as secretary, supervisor, and bachelor of Hongwen Hall. Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty called him the five greatest virtues: virtue, loyalty, erudition, literary poetry, and calligraphy.
This cicada poem is the earliest one in the Tang Dynasty and is highly praised by later generations. The first sentence, "Hanging down to drink the clear dew," ostensibly describes the cicada's shape and feeding habits. In fact, it uses metaphorical techniques to hint at his prominent status and incorruptible character. There are two tentacles on the head of the cicada, which are shaped like the hatband worn by officials around the neck. The ancients believed that the cicada lived in tall trees and only drank clean dew, so the word "drinking clear dew" symbolized a person's noble character.
The author Yu Shinan used the cicada to sing his feelings, showing that he has a noble and noble character and will become famous without any reliance. Three or four sentences express emotions through cicadas. The far-reaching sound of cicadas is not transmitted by the autumn wind. What is highlighted is the poet's personality beauty, expressing the poet's passionate praise of his inner character and showing a graceful and unhurried demeanor.
Reference Sogou Encyclopedia - Cicada (a poem by Yu Shinan of the Tang Dynasty) 2. What does the poem "Cicada" mean?
1. Translation:
Cicada He lowered his head and drank the clear dew, shouting from the tall plane trees.
Since it is located at a high place, its sound can naturally travel far, not by the autumn wind.
2. "Cicada" is an ancient five-character poem written by Yu Shinan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. It is a poem with a metaphorical meaning. Original text:
Drooping down to drink the clear dew, the sound of flowing water flows out of the sparse tung trees.
Keeping your voice high and far away is not just to take advantage of the autumn wind.
3. Notes:
① Ruí: the knotted and hanging part of an ancient official hat. The head of the cicada has outstretched tentacles, shaped like a drooping crown tassel. . Also refers to the thin mouth on the cicada's chin that resembles a hatband.
②Qinglu: pure dew. Drinking dew: The ancients believed that cicadas are noble in nature and drink dew when they live high. In fact, they suck the juice of plants.
③Stream: issued. Liusheng: refers to the cicada's long chirping, which carries the sound far away.
④ Shutong: tall sycamore.
⑤ High: refers to perching in a high place, a pun.
⑥ borrow (jiè): rely on, rely on.
It means that a gentleman should be like a cicada, standing high and far away, without having to rely on or be controlled by other things. It expresses the poet's passionate praise and high confidence in people's inner character, and shows a graceful and unhurried charm. 3. What is the meaning of cicada in ancient poems?
Cicada, as a weak and objective existence in nature, drinks nectar in the morning, swallows high branches in the evening, grows in summer and dies in autumn, and is insignificant in the vast universe.
However, it is this law of life that has won the love of literati. Cicadas have been included in literary works to praise and praise, especially in poetry, where they have become the object of description. From the Book of Songs to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, "Cicada Literature" developed rapidly.
This article attempts to explore the evolution process of cicada imagery in poetry from the perspective of sustenance. 1. Imagery and sustenance Looking at poetry theory, it is not difficult to see that imagery is an important feature of poetry, especially in ancient poetry.
Poetry critics clearly put forward that "the beauty of ancient poetry lies in its imagery" (Hu Yinglin, "Shi Sou"). In a sense, imagery is the author's thoughts and feelings permeating it, and it is also a manifestation of human consciousness activities triggered by objective things.
Hegel believed that it is "the unity of the artist's subjectivity and the true objectivity of expression." We can know that once the objective objects and subjective minds are combined, various images will It can be expressed in language.
Over the bird's nest in the south, the pheasant crows mournfully. The scene is not one moment, the object is not the same place, and the object image does not originally have a specific meaning. The author combines the two levels with specific thoughts and feelings, and then it comes into being. took on a new meaning.
The image of cicada in poetry has a reasonable basis.
Qian Zhongshu pointed out that "something that has never been said in poetry is to take things from different places and put them together. The so-called 'the words are here and the intention is there' can be said to have sustenance." Sustenance plays an important role in the theory of poetry. The ancients believed that sustenance is the best in poetry about chanting things.
The sustenance school of poets emerged in the Southern Song Dynasty. The preface to the selection of poems by the four poets of the Song Dynasty says: "The chanting of things is the most important to convey the meaning, and the meaning runs through it, deepening and leaving no trace."
Zhang Yan also put forward in "Etymology" that "the chanting is full of meaning." "The purpose, the purpose does not stay in the object" is the creative norm.
Therefore, we can say that the wonderful thing about poems about chanting things is that they have moral meanings, but the wonderful thing about the moral meaning cannot be literal. What it places on it is a certain emotion, mentality and life perception. As a fine piece of poetry about chanting things, cicada poems must be filled with just the right amount of imagery and sustenance.
According to this, we can watch the beauty of the image changes through the presence or absence of sustenance in the poem. 2. Cicada poems without sustenance As a tiny creature that is taken care of by poets and entered into poems, in its initial stage, it is just an objective natural object, which is mainly reflected in the poetry of the pre-Tang Dynasty.
Cicada first appeared in "July" in "The Book of Songs": "In May, the worm sings", and the worm is the cicada. The chirping of cicadas brings out the true portrayal of farming with the seasons.
Another song is "Daya*dang": "Like a cricket, like a locust, like a boiling soup." Zhu Xi commented, "Both the locusts and the cicadas are like cicadas. They are like cicadas, like cicadas, like boiling soup." It’s confusing.”
It can be seen that the life characteristic of cicadas has attracted the attention of poets. The poems express the primitive life habits of insects. "The cool breeze arrives, the white dew falls, and the cicadas chirp" ("Book of Rites* Yue Ling"). Cicadas, like crickets and other small insects, are a simple phenology.
With the further development of poetry, a large number of poems with cicadas as the object of description appeared, but the author did not intend to assign the object, and there was no intention of sustenance. Fan Yun of the Liang Dynasty wrote a poem about early cicadas: "The ice is thin in spring, and its quality is as light as autumn dust.
Duan Sui is clear in the sky, and the flying sound is clear in the dew." This poem describes the shape and form of cicadas. Various features such as sounds and activity times provide a detailed and appropriate description of its lifestyle.
Another example is Shen Junyou of the Liang Dynasty's "Poetry with Lu Tingwei on the Early Morning Cicada": "At dusk, the wind is blowing in the wild, and the cicadas are waiting for the festival. The ground is humming constantly, and the leaves are making a noise and the crowd is startled."
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Another example is Wang Youli of the Sui Dynasty's "Poetry for the Singing Cicada": "The willows in the garden have been singing for a long time, and the cicadas are frightened at the order. The dew is constant and moist.
The wind is high and the wings are turning lightly. , the leaves are flying more and more." These poems are either written about the chirping in the autumn evening, or about life activities, but generally they describe the living environment of cicadas and the existence space under specific circumstances. It cannot be ignored. It is an excellent work of chanting things.
Although this type of cicada poem does not rely on the clever use of this style, it still maintains its inherent style. Many good sentences have appeared along the way, which add color to the poems.
Show unique emotions. But what really made Cicada famous in the poetry world was his sustenance works.
3. The image beauty given to cicada by sustenance. Cicada’s reputation in the poetry world depends on its development in Tang poetry. As we all know, the Tang Dynasty was an era of poetry. The method of sustenance came to the writings of the Tang people. They began to get rid of the rigid and immature techniques and entered a realm where they could be used freely and express without reason. The meaning of sustenance surpassed that of the previous dynasty.
Many theories originate from this. Shen Xianglong said: "The works of chanting objects are to borrow objects to express one's temperament, and the feelings of one's life experience and the worries of the country are implicitly contained in them. They are placed in far-reaching places and cannot be touched by one thing."
< p> This is clearly reflected in many cicada poems in the Tang Dynasty. At this time, the image of cicada in the poem is not only an intentional arrangement of sustenance, but also an expression of spirituality.There are many poems that are rich in sustenance and reflect specific images, such as "Don't worry about the summer fruits, return to the autumn cicadas" (Li Duan's "Late Tour to Dongtian to Sikong Shu"). The literati's attachment to the cicada creates a kind of tragic beauty, constructing a distinctive image that embellishes the poetry world. It reflects the literati's psychological feelings about politics, society, and life, and fully reflects the poet's subjective spirit.
This is mainly reflected on three levels. (1) It is reflected in the linearity of time that shows the image of time changes in the cycle of cultural heaven.
It brings out a sense of self-time, which is the most basic image given to cicada by the poet using sustenance technique. The life of a cicada that turns into an adult insect is very short. Zhuangzi said that it "does not know the spring and autumn" ("Zhuangzi * Xiaoyaoyou").
This habit of the cicada and the poet's emotion cleverly caused the cicada to sing. The concern and self-pity for individual life have given writers of all ages a general sense of sadness that life is short and the universe is eternal. The essence of this is a strong sense of time.
“The starting point and end point of this kind of consciousness are closely related to human life itself. Its core is the profound enlightenment caused by the two-way isomorphic induction of life phenomena and natural operations in the heart. Its specific It expresses people's fear, lamentation, grasp and persistence of their own lives. "The poet deliberately wrote about the cicada, which seems to be a pity for the small insect, but in fact it expresses a sense of cherishing the time that "the sunset is infinitely better, but it is almost dusk." , which is a force that can crush the femur.
Chen Ziang, a poet of the early Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Thirty-six Encounter Poems No. 12": "Xuanchan is called Bailu, but she is already wasted.
The group of things will become larger and larger, but the lonely hero will be unable to do anything. "
The surface of the poem is about the arrival of cicadas in the white dew. 4. What is the poem about cicadas?
"Autumn cicadas sing among the trees, and black birds pass away peacefully? "(Xuanniao, that is, swallow) ("Nineteen Ancient Poems: The Bright Moon at Night") "The cicadas are singing in the cold sound, while the chrysanthemums are shining in the autumn flowers" (Pan Yue's "Two Poems from Heyang County") "The mourning cicadas have no sound, and the wild geese are singing in the sky. . "(Tao Yuanming's "The ninth day of the ninth month in the year of Jiyou") "The willows in the garden have been singing for a long time, and the cicadas are frightened in response to the order." (The Sui Dynasty King Youli's "Fu De Gao Liu Cicada") "The microorganisms created by nature can always respond to the call." ( "Hearing the Cicada" by Xu Shang of the Tang Dynasty) "The high cicada has a distant rhyme, and the lush trees have lingering sound" (Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty, "Nan'an Daozhong") "The flowing sound surrounds the bushes, and the lingering sound echoes through the high tower" ("Listening to the Cicada in the Back Hall" by Xiao Zifan of the Southern Dynasties) ) "Qingyin sings the dew leaves at dawn, and the sunset branches are noisy with sadness. Suddenly the strings are cut off, and the pipes are scattered." (Liu Yuxi of the Tang Dynasty, "Rewarding the Solitary Prime Minister for Seeing the New Cicadas") "The noisy cicada forest becomes quieter, and the bird singing mountain becomes more secluded" (Wang Ji "Entering Ruoye Creek") "The spring slips Qianyou swallows, and the sound of the piano comes and goes. The long wind keeps cutting, still among the branches. " ("New Cicada" by Lu Tong of the Tang Dynasty) "The bright moon is frightened by the magpies on the other branches, and the cicadas are chirping in the breeze in the middle of the night. " (Song Xin Qiji's "Xijiang Yue·Walking on the Yellow Sand Road on a Moonlit Night")
"If you have to drink Xuantian Dew, why should you say Gao Liuhan" ("Cicada Poetry" by Chen Liu of the Southern Dynasty) "Drinking and exposing one's body "He Jie, the chanting charm is longer" ("Painting Cicada" by Dai Shulun of the Tang Dynasty) 5. What does the poem "Cicada" mean?
Is it talking about Yu Shinan's five-character quatrain "Cicada"? It mainly expresses You can understand your own superb sentiments as boasting.
In the first two sentences, the author describes the cicada hiding in the parasol trees, eating the wind and drinking the dew, and the loud sound echoes through the parasol trees. Using the cicada to describe oneself shows that one is as noble as a cicada, and the cicada is like an insect-like phoenix.
The third and fourth sentences say that one is famous all over the world because of his noble sentiments, not because of any connections. To achieve such a great reputation.
The general idea of ??the whole poem is that I have noble morals, noble temperament, and a prominent reputation, but I am still as inconspicuous as a cicada. This is a very clever way of boasting. Neither myself nor others are disgusted. 6. What is the meaning of the poem "Cicada"
Cicada by Li Shangyin
It is hard to be full, but it is in vain to make a sound.
< p> Five o'clock is about to break, and a green tree is ruthless.The thin official stalks are still spread, and the hometown is flat.
Fanjun is the most alarming, and I will also clean up my family.
Poetry of Cicada/Meaning of Cicada
You are perched on a high branch of a tree, eating the wind and drinking the dew. It is hard to fill your stomach, so why do you make such a plaintive and resentful sound? Everything is actually in vain. I am exhausted by the fifth watch, but the green tree remains the same, expressionless. I am in a humble official position and wander around like a peach puppet, but the countryside in my hometown is deserted. The sound of the chirping sounded the alarm to me. My family situation was also poor and miserable.